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Meg Hillier Excerpts
Monday 4th March 2013

(11 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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A Minister will certainly meet my hon. Friend.

Meg Hillier Portrait Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)
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First, we had the pile ’em high, teach ’em cheap approach to child care and in the Children and Families Bill, there is a move towards agencies, but there has still been no unveiling of the supposed policy on tax breaks for working parents. Will the Secretary of State let us know when that is coming and whether it will replace the tax credits that parents already get?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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All tax issues are a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. His policies are always right and should always be announced when he wishes to announce them and not, however beseeching the hon. Lady’s questions are, when she wants them to be announced.